Microsemiotics of DNA

Semiotica

Volumn 138, Issue , 2002, Pages 15-42

  Ji, Sungchul ^a  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

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EID: 12444341553     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/semi.2002.002     Document Type: Article

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48. Sungchul Ji (b. 1937) is Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Rutgers University, New Jersey . His principal research interests include cell linguistics, microsemiotics, bioenergetics, liver perfusion, toxicology, and pharmacology. His major publications include 'Biocybernetics: A machine theory of biology' (1991), 'Isomorphism between cell and human languages . . . ' (1997), 'Linguistics of DNA: Words, sentences, grammar, phonetics, & grammar' (1999), and 'Free energy and information contents of conformons . . . ' (2000).